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Add the result to your basket Make a suggestion Refine your search Apply to external sourcesEconomic crisis, health systems and health in Europe / Sarah Thomson / Mc Graw Hill Education (2015)
ISBN : 978-0-335-26400-1 : € 37.99
Languages : English (eng)
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W 74 Medical economics. Health care costs (General)
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Economic Evaluation ; Economic indicators ; Europe ; Health Care ; Health Care Costs ; Health Care ReformAbstract: Economic shocks pose a threat to health and health system performance by increasing people’s need for health care and making access to care more difficult – a situation compounded by cuts in public spending on health and other social services. But these negative effects can be avoided by timely public policy action. While important public policy levers lie outside the health sector, in the hands of those responsible for fiscal policy and social protection, the health system response is critical.
This book looks at how health systems in Europe reacted to pressure created by the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008. Drawing on the experience of over 45 countries, the authors:
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analyse health system responses to the crisis in three policy areas: public funding for the health system; health coverage; and health service planning, purchasing and delivery
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identify policies most likely to sustain the performance of health systems facing financial pressure ?
explore the political economy of implementing reforms in a crisis
The book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the choices available to policy-makers - and the implications of failing to protect health and health-system performance - in the face of economic and other forms of shock.Contents note: Making sense of health system responses to economic crisis -- The crisis and its implications for household financial security, government resources and health expenditure -- Changes to public funding for the health system -- Changes to health coverage -- Changes to health service planning, purchasing and delivery -- The health effects of the crisis -- The impact of the crisis on health systems and health: Lessons for policy -- Appendix Record link: https://kce.docressources.info/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=3635 Hold
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Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 10273-03115 W74 / THO Book KCE Library (10.124) Due for return by 12/31/2020 Readers who borrowed this document also borrowed:
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ISBN : 0-335-20924-6
Winner of the 2002 European Healthcare Managment Association's Baxter Award
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W 74 Medical economics. Health care costs (General)
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Europe ; Health Care Economics and OrganizationsAbstract: The question of how to generate sufficient revenue to pay for health care has become a serious concern for nearly all European policy-makers. This book examines the advantages and disadvantages of funding arrangements currently in use across Europe. Adopting a cross-national, cross-disciplinary perspective, it assesses the relative merits of the main methods of raising resources including taxation; social, voluntary and supplemental forms of insurance; and self-pay including co-payments. Link for e-copy: http://www.euro.who.int/Document/E86300.pdf Format of e-copy: Record link: https://kce.docressources.info/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=570 Hold
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Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 10273-00298 W74/MOS Book KCE Library (10.124) Available
ISBN : 92-89010-97-5
Languages : English (eng)
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W 84 Health services. Quality of health care (General)
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Delivery of Health CareAbstract: The period following the break-up of the Soviet Union has brought enormous political and socioeconomic change to the European Region.
The health sector has not been spared the effects of transition, and the countries emerging from the process have each engaged to varying degrees in health system reform. It is at last possible to reach some judgement about how this process has unfolded, to identify successes and failures, and to understand better the scale and nature of the remaining challenges. This book draws on the experience and lessons learned in the Region over the past ten years of transition in key health systems areas, such as health care financing, the restructuring of hospitals, public health and gains in health system quality.Link for e-copy: http://www.euro.who.int/document/E83108.pdf Format of e-copy: Record link: https://kce.docressources.info/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=572 Hold
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Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 10273-00696 W 84/FIG Book KCE Library (10.124) Available
ISBN : 0-335-21367-7
Languages : English (eng)
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WA 525 Health Administration and Organization - General works
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Delivery of Health CareAbstract: Purchasing is championed as a key to improving health systems performance. However, despite the central role the purchasing function plays in many health system reforms, there is very little evidence about its development or its real impact on societal objectives.
This book addresses this gap and provides:
* A comprehensive account of the theory and practice of purchasing for health services across Europe
* An up-to-date analysis of the evidence on different approaches to purchasing
* Support for policy makers and practitioners as they formulate purchasing strategies so that they can increase effectiveness and improve performance in their own national context
* An assessment of the intersecting roles of citizens, the government and the providers
Written by leading health policy analysts, this book is essential reading for health policy makers, planners and managers as well as researchers and students in the field of health studies.Link for e-copy: http://www.euro.who.int/Document/E86300.pdf Format of e-copy: Record link: https://kce.docressources.info/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=564 Hold
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Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 10273-00691 WA 525/FIG Book KCE Library (10.124) Available
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Languages : English (eng)
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W 100 Medical, Dental, and Pharmaceutical Service Plans -- General works
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Delivery of Health Care ; Europe ; Insurance, HealthAbstract: What are the characteristics that define a social health insurance system?
How is success measured in SHI systems?
How are SHI systems developing in response to external pressures?
Using the seven social health insurance countries in western Europe - Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland - as well as Israel, this important book reviews core structural and organizational dimensions, as well as recent reforms
and innovations.
Covering a wide range of policy issues, the book:
* Explores the pressures these health systems confront to be more efficient, more effective, and more responsive
* Reviews their success in addressing these pressures
* Examines the implications of change on the structure of SHIs as they are currently defined
* Draws out policy lessons about past experience and likely future developments in social health insurance systems in a manner useful to policymakers in Europe and elsewhere
Social health insurance systems in western Europe will be of interest to students of health policy and management as well as health managers and policy makers.Link for e-copy: http://www.euro.who.int/document/E84968.pdf Format of e-copy: PDF [Open Access] (1,53 MB) Record link: https://kce.docressources.info/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=565
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